102 BED-THROATED PIPIT. 



word, none of our party had any hesitation as to regarding A. cer- 

 vimis as a perfectly good species. 



I" do not take upon myself a description of the specimens which 

 I have had the pleasure of sending to Dr. Bree. A young bird, 

 obtained at Mortensnses, (between Wadso and Nyborg,) July 16th., 

 and as it was attended by its parents, (both of which were well seen 

 by Mr. Wolley and myself,) could only have just left the nest, seems 

 to differ only from the young of the Titlark in being of a ruddier 

 complexion: a coloured drawing of it, made only a few hours after 

 its death, is now before me. I have already mentioned what the 

 eggs looked like, and it would be difficult in words to convey a 

 better idea of them. All the nests I saw were simply built of dry 

 bents, without any lining of feathers or hair. 



I may however add that it was only in this restricted locality in 

 East Finmark — between Wadso and Nyborg — that we saw this bird, 

 and I believe Mr. Wolley never met with it elsewhere, though a nest 

 of unidentified eggs, brought to him, in 1854, from Nyimakka, ("v. 

 p. 1086,") a settlement on the upper part of the Muonio river, may 

 possibly belong to this species. At Stockholm I saw in the possession 

 of Conservator Meves, the ingenious discoverer of the cause of the 

 bleating noise made by the Common Snipe, a living Red-throated 

 Pipit, which had been taken in a garden near that town, where, I 

 believe, it not unfrequently occurs in its autumnal migration." 



Middendorff expressly states that the bird he describes is the same 

 as that of Keyserling and Blasius; and Mr. Newton's species is evi- 

 dently that described by Middendorff, as 31, cervinus. The male bird 

 figured by the latter is less spotted on the breast, and the cheeks are 

 more covered with russet. 



Middendorff remarks, "This bird was found in both north and south 

 Siberia. I shot a female in the Stonowoj Mountains, on the 26th. of 

 May, consequently not on the passage. The rust-yellow of the Siberian 

 specimen has a somewhat violet tint, (very similar to the colour on 

 the breast of the Turtle Dove;) it covers the cheeks near the eyes, 

 the throat, flanks, neck, and upper part of the breast. It is only found 

 in this plumage from May to July. These colours are on the upper 

 part of the breast, sharply bordered with whitish yellow; on the belly, 

 pencilled blackish spots. The back is very dark, without reddish or 

 yellowish tints, but the narrow border of the feathers is whitish or 

 greenish grey. The four first wing primaries are of almost equal 

 length, and nearly as long as the longest tertial, as pointed out by 

 Keyserling and Blasius. The inner half of the white outermost tail 

 feather brownish, and there is a pointed three-cornered white patch 



